Abandoned Philadelphia Port Richmond Coal Rail Yard Now Graffiti Pier PA
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2017
- In 1876, James D. McCabe wrote:
This vast depot is one of the “sights” of Philadelphia, and is the most extensive in the world. It comprises 21 shipping docks, with an aggregate length of 15,000 feet, and accommodations for 250 vessels and boats. The shipping piers are 23 in number, and their aggregate length is 4-1/4 miles. They are provided with 10-1/2 miles of single track, and in addition to this are connected with each other and with the main line of the road by 22 miles of track. The cars, loaded with coal at the mines, are brought direct to this depot, and are run out on the shipping piers. By means of trap-doors in the floors of the cars the coal is emptied into schutes [sic] 169 feet in length, which convey it directly into the holds of the vessels to be loaded. About 2,000 men are employed here, and the daily shipments of coal amount to 30,000 tons. The piers have a storage capacity of 175,000 tons. The company at present employ six fine iron steamers for the transportation of coal from Port Richmond to other points, and intend to increase this number to fifty. Several hundred other vessels are employed in this trade.
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I took a lot of train pictures in that area. This was early 1990's. ConRail trains at the massive 2.5 million bushel Port Richmond grain elevator ( demolished in 1999 ) at Richmond St. & Allegheny Ave and then on up to the Delair bridge and over to Frankford Junction yard. The missing part in the middle was a coal dumper known as a McMyler dumper.
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@@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures The bridges that are over Richmond Street between Lehigh Ave. and Somerset St. are just a few years old. That whole area of Richmond St. was completely rebuilt when the low hanging girder steel girder bridges were replaced with new plate girder bridges. The Septa Rt.15 trolley runs on Richmond St. It was a Penn DOT project. The track area above Richmond St. is all former Reading Railroad Company prior to ConRail in 1976. When everything was still in place, tracks from all the facilities, the grain elevator, coal pier, covered merchandise piers, the car float apron and The Jack Frost Sugar refinery converged at the two bridges over Richmond St. between Lehigh Ave. and Somerset Sts. That bridge was wide enough to hold dozens of tracks from all different directions. When I was there in the 1990's the grain elevator was already abandoned but still in place, only the conveyor belt housing structure to the grain pier was demolished and 4 tracks remained on one of the two bridges. An attempt by ConRail to turn the Port Richmond grain elevator into a coal facility failed. The trains I photographed were solid unit trains of tank cars and ballast trains that dumped ballast beside the grain elevator.
I was stationed at PNSY and I regret not having the opportunity to explore your City
You will come back
At 14:10 that device is called the Oscar which ran on it's own narrow gauge track. That's what pushed the loaded car up to the top where it would enter a rotary dumper. The car would basically be flipped over and dumped. When it was done, it would continue out the other side and switch tracks to the pier next to it and the car would descend down with another Oscar providing breaking as it went back down. The car would be dropped into the hump yard where it would be rejoined. That open space where you saw the threaded bolts in the concrete is where the rotary dump structure was.
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It’s me....
Miss your videos Patrick :'-( Hope you're coming back soon.
Been there so many times...215...home town
Thank you for watching
@@NewJerseyOutdoorAdventures no doubt brother...definitely show you love on both your channels... #airstream190 #newjerseyoutdooradventures
I love the unexplored history of my hometown...-
Me too
Wat's going on? No more videos? I miss them! Outdoor stuff is very interesting
Thank you Richard. The channel shifted to RVs and camper tours for people to enjoy the outdoors. Don’t worry I will still feature abandoned and unusual
Are you going to do videos again soon. Miss them!
Absolutely. Glad you like!
I live in Philadelphia, I really want to go there one day
What a Great Place to be👍
Used to enjoy watching your videos. You should start making more again
This facility was designed and built by the Reading Railroad as an outlet for the wonderful Anthracite mined in Northeast Pa.
That was awesome!!
4:51 $20,000 is a graffiti writer. That poster is offering $20,000 for their lost CD collection.
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Patrick where are you ??!!!we miss you .
I know of a local photographer who has done some great Urban shots here ... along the abandoned PECO station too.. Thanks for sharing..
Ah, I miss the days when we made bubble letters on our notebooks rather than on public property....
4:21The graffiti at the top, the older basic black, red, white, yellow graffiti looks to be from the 1960s, when there would have been more of that wood structure up there. The blue and purple graffiti to the right of that is from the 1970s. The graffiti was never painted over after the structure collapsed. No board could be that long. Plus the electrical box would not have been 30 feet above the ground. There must have been a platform there. You can see the bars where the wood structure was attached. The graffiti at ground level is much newer.
terrific video, really great. have a look at the austrian urbex team
nice videos
How much land goes with it
Bid on rail steel first CISR RR
Whats up Dude! Where'd ya go? Hope all is well with you & your loved ones. Haven't seen ya for a while so we'd thought id send some best wishes.
Glad to hear you’re ok buddy!! Nice to see you comment!!
They graffitied the trees, too??? Oy!
Cool
wonder whatever happened to this guy ? I used to love to watch his vids..
I agree! Hasn’t made a video in about a year. Hope he’s ok..
Honest Mike Gotta wonder. He’s so cool.
This is a really good vid. Have you walked around Wissahickon (gorge)? Its not abandoned but the trails go under the bridges/overpasses that whole area is heavily graffitied also. (Steep drop down too). Not as amazing as graffiti pier but pretty significant, imo
Murals are one thing. This sh*t is just plain ugly, IMO. Trash. It would be much nicer if it had been left alone.
It was a mcmyler coal dumper
Check out this Graffiti Pier music video: czcams.com/video/c5m4Ut5LubU/video.html
Pretty cool
Um... are you planning on ever uploading anymore videos? Been quite a while.
i see that reward for 20000 dollars everywhere for cds tf
Yo where are you from im from freehold
Used to enjoy watching your videos. You should start making more again